David Schiff
Founding Partner
Mr. Schiff has an over twenty-five year career developing and investing in private equity, credit and real estate markets while focused on creating value for investors in special situations, emergent asset classes, private credit and asset-based investments. He has a vast depth of knowledge, expertise and experience within the investment segment and is known for his highly creative, disciplined and risk-sensitive approach to investing. Since 2016, Mr. Schiff is a founding partner of Innovatus Capital Partners LLC, serves as CEO and is Chairman of the Investment Committee. [...] more
Andrew Dym
Founding Partner
Mr. Dym has an over thirty year career developing, assessing risk of, and investing in special situations, private equity, emerging asset classes, private credit, and asset-based investments across a wide variety of industries, asset classes, and situations. Since 2016, Mr. Dym is a Founding Partner of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC, serves as President and Chief Risk Officer and is a voting member of the Investment Committee. [...] more
Andrew Hobson
Partner
Mr. Hobson has an over thirty year career. building and leading teams of finance executives that intensely focus on the imperative of value creation while working hand-in-glove with operating executives to solve problems, develop and execute on value creating strategies selflessly and creatively. He has deep experience in leading and structuring transactions in capital structures across varying economic cycles. Since 2016, Mr. Hobson is a Partner of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC, serves as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer and is a voting member of the Investment Committee. He oversees all accounting and finance functions for the firm. [...] more
Ravi Bhagavatula
Partner
Mr. Bhagavatula has over twenty-five years of experience in deal sourcing, deal execution, asset management, operations consulting and C-level management. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in February 2019, Mr. Bhagavatula was a Founder and Managing Partner at Excelsior Capital Partners for eight years, a portfolio company of the Perella Weinberg Partners Asset Based Value Strategy that invests in distressed debt, special situations, and specialty lending across commercial real estate and operating companies. Together with David Schiff and Andy Dym, Mr. Bhagavautla evaluated and invested in over $1 billion of distressed and special situations at ABV. From 2007 to 2009, he served as a Managing Director in the Special Assets Group at Republic Financial Corporation, and from there, advanced to becoming a Principal at Marlin Equity Partners. [...] more
Amy Cohen
Head of Marketing and Investor Relations
Ms. Cohen has over twenty years of experience working in the capital markets in positions across marketing, investor relations, trading and structuring. Ms. Cohen’s strategy expertise spans credit (corporate, structured, distressed and asset-based), equities, fixed income and real assets. She has successfully raised assets for alternative investment vehicles in evergreen and closed-end vehicles. She has a deep investor network across institutional, asset management firms, family offices, pension and sovereign wealth funds. [...] more
Joseph Azulay
Mr. Azulay has over ten years of experience in accounting in the private equity and asset management industry. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in March 2019, Mr. Azulay was a Director at Hedgeserv, a global, independent fund administrator, primarily focused on private equity, credit, and listed equity funds. From 2012 to 2013, Mr. Azulay was a Senior Audit Assistant at Deloitte [...] more
Keith Bergen
Mr. Bergen has over twenty years of experience in the asset management industry. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in September 2018, Mr. Bergen held several positions including Controller of Alternative Investments at Third Avenue Management LLC, a registered investment adviser where he was responsible for all aspects of accounting and operations for the alternative funds business. [...] more
Georgia Carreira
Ms. Carreira has over fifteen years in commercial real estate asset management, acquisitions, and loan origination across core, core plus and value add real estate investments in all primary asset classes (retail, office, multi-family, industrial) for global institutions and private investors. [...] more
Tim Cobb
Mr. Cobb has six years of experience in accounting in the asset management industry. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in April 2022, Mr. Cobb was a Senior Fund Accountant at Brigade Capital Management, LP a global asset management firm, where he was responsible for the accounting, compliance, and operations for their high yield credit, distressed debt, and {…} more
Claes Ekstrom
Mr. Ekstrom has over twenty years of experience in asset-backed investing, mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance across healthcare and various other industries. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in January of 2016, Mr. Ekstrom was a member of the Perella Weinberg Partners' Asset Based Value Strategy Investment Team, where he focused on corporate, healthcare and consumer opportunities. [...] more
Ana Firmato
Ms. Firmato has over twenty years experience in corporate finance, with a focus on international banking products. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners as a full time consultant in April 2019, Ms. Firmato was a Managing Director in the Brazil office of Crecera Trade Finance (Latam Trade Capital) and was responsible for origination, execution and restructuring commodity finance structures in the Brazilian market. [...] more
Jeffrey Holland
Mr. Holland has over fifteen years of financial services experience, the last 12 focused on direct investments in special situations and distressed debt. Prior to joining Innovatus in July 2019, Mr. Holland worked at Excelsior Capital Partners, a portfolio company of the Perella Weinberg Partners Asset Based Value Strategy that invests in distressed debt, special situations and specialty lending across commercial real estate and operating companies. [...] more
Amit Khasgiwala
Mr. Khasgiwala has over seven years of experience across investment banking, equity research, and engineering in the medical technology, life science, and healthcare services sectors. Prior to joining Innovatus in September 2017, Mr. Khasgiwala worked Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the healthcare investment banking group. In this position he developed strategic materials and analyses [...] more
Edwin Zhang
Mr. Zhang brings over seven years of experience in investment banking, corporate banking, and financial analysis, with a specialization in the life sciences sector. Prior to his current role at Innovatus, Mr. Zhang was an Investment Banking Associate at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in New York. As a member of the healthcare coverage team, he focused on mergers and acquisitions, debt financing, leveraged buyouts, and capital market transactions. He spearheaded several major transactions, notably the $3.0 billion merger of Virgin Pulse with HealthComp. {…} more
Joshua Little
Mr. Little has over ten years of experience across legal, strategic and business affairs relating to asset management. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in August 2016, Mr. Little held several positions including Senior Managing Director of Business & Legal Affairs at Third Avenue Management, a registered investment adviser, and Member of the Board of Directors [...] more
Bradley Seiden
Mr. Seiden has over twenty-four years of experience in commercial real estate acquisitions, recapitalizations and asset management across core-plus and opportunistic real estate investments amongst all property types including office, retail, industrial, warehouse, garden-style multi-family, residential condominiums, limited service hotel, full service hotel, resort hotels, on-mountain land development, self-storage, medical office buildings, NYC condo structures (office/retail), [...] more
Peter Wassmann
Mr. Wassmann has over 5 years of experience in commercial real estate equity and debt transactions across industrial, multifamily, student housing, built-to-rent, office, retail, self-storage, and hospitality asset classes in U.S and Canadian markets. At Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC, Mr. Wassmann supports all aspects of the real estate investment strategy including asset and portfolio management. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in April of 2024, Mr. Wassmann was an associate at Blue Vista Capital Management (2019-2024), a middle-market real estate private equity investment management firm. {…} more
Michele Barcellos
Ms. Barcellos has over twenty years experience in corporate and investment banking having worked in several areas among which credit risk, structured trade & commodity finance, and M&A. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, Ms. Barcellos was a VP in the Structured Credit Division of Hemisfério Sul Investimentos (HSI). Prior to HSI, Ms. Barcellos was a Credit Specialist in the Credit Recovery Department of Bradesco bank. Prior to Bradesco, Ms. Barcellos was a Senior Credit Officer in the Corporate Risk Division of HSBC Brazil. Prior to HSBC, Ms. Barcellos was a VP in the Investment Banking arm of {…} more
Sydney (Proze) Payne
Ms. Payne has over eight years of experience in legal and compliance, across asset management and banking industries. Prior to joining Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in April 2020, Ms. Payne was a Director in the Legal and Compliance Division of Morgan Stanley. Mrs. Payne has also worked in the legal and compliance space at BlackRock and Volant Trading. Ms. Payne started her career as a Corporate Paralegal at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP with a focus on private equity funds {…} more
Webb George
Mr. George has over four years experience in investment banking with a focus on life sciences. Prior to Innovatus, Previously, Mr. George was an Associate with Blackstone Life Sciences where as a member of the investment team he actively worked on debt, royalty, and equity investments across the life sciences space. While at Blackstone, Mr. George was responsible for sourcing, structuring, conducting diligence, and executing private debt financings, passive royalty monetizations, synthetic royalty {…} more